Victoria Sambunaris
Victoria Sambunaris is an American photographer. Sambunaris was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Victoria Sambunaris
- Name
- Victoria Sambunaris
- Birthplace
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Education
- Mount Vernon College (BA) Yale University (M.F.A.)
- Known for
- Photographic journey traversing the American landscape
- Born
- 1964 · Lancaster.
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Anonymous Was A Woman Award · Guggenheim Fellowship
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Victoria Sambunaris is an American photographer. Sambunaris was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Victoria Sambunaris (born 1964) is an American photographer. The photographer was born in Lancaster.
Victoria Sambunaris studied at Yale University. The photographer worked for Yale University.
Works by Victoria Sambunaris are held at Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. The photographer received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Victoria Sambunaris studied at Yale University. Employment is recorded with Yale University. Work by Victoria Sambunaris is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Distinctions recorded are Anonymous Was A Woman Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
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• Name — Victoria Sambunaris • Birthplace — Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US • Occupation — Photographer • Education — Mount Vernon College (BA) Yale University (M.F.A.) • Known for — Photographic journey traversing the American landscape • Honors — Anonymous Was A Woman Award • Website — victoriasambunaris.com/about
Education
Education
Sambunaris earned her Bachelor of Arts from Mount Vernon College in 1986 and her Masters of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1999.
Career
Career
In 2010, she was awarded the Anonymous Was A Woman Award and was later hired by Yale University in 2012 as a lecturer in photography. In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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1964
Victoria Sambunaris born at Lancaster.
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Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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- 1.Ten-year survey of the work of Victoria Sambunaris at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. artdaily.com.
- 2.Anonymous Was A Woman Awards Ten Women Artists Receive $25,000 Gran.
- 3.Victoria Sambunaris, Photographer. art.yale.edu.
- 4.Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists. www.gf.org.
- 5.Victoria Sambunaris. www.whitney.org.
- 6.Victoria Sambunaris - MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 7.Victoria Sambunaris · SFMOMA. www.sfmoma.org.
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Victoria Sambunaris received Anonymous Was A Woman Award and Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Museum of Modern Art, Photography Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art
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